page_title: 2015 New York Yankees season
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2015 New York Yankees season / Season summary / August
caption_attribution_description: Luis Severino
context_page_description: The 2015 New York Yankees season was the 113th season in New York City, and 115th season overall, for the New York Yankees, who play in the American League East of Major League Baseball. They finished the regular season with a record of 87-75, six games behind the Toronto Blue Jays and second in the AL East. They clinched the host Wild Card berth, but lost to the Houston Astros in the 2015 American League Wild Card Game.
  This was the Yankees' first full season in over twenty years without team captain and shortstop Derek Jeter, who retired at the end of the 2014 season. In addition, the Yankees retired the jersey numbers of center fielder Bernie Williams, catcher Jorge Posada, and pitcher Andy Pettitte during the season; doing so brought the total amount of retired numbers to 20, for 22 different players.
context_section_description: The beginning of August saw the Yankees begin to struggle. With the Toronto Blue Jays in a hot streak since the end of July (where they revamped their team with a few big name players), a once respectable lead in the division had shrunk down to just a half game ahead of the Jays by the end of August 11.  That night, the Yankees had traveled to Cleveland to face the Indians.  Entering that game, the Yankees had gone 31 straight innings without scoring a run. Despite having a 4–2 lead in the 10th inning, closer Andrew Miller blew the save. The game was decided in the 16th inning, where Michael Brantley had walked off for the Indians.  The Yankees lost 5-4. They lost the next day and the Blue Jays took lead of the division by half a game.
  On August 5, Luis Severino had his major league debut starting against the Red Sox.
  On August 13 the New York Yankees called up Greg Bird who went 0 for 5 in his debut. He got his first career hit on August 15 and his first and second career home runs on August 19.
  The Yankees retook the division the lead on August 14 in one of the most intense games of the season. Down 3–1 in the top of the eighth, Yankees outfielder Carlos Beltrán hit a pinch-hit three-run home run to put the Yankees up 4–3; closer Andrew Miller finished the game for the Yankees in a nail-biting fashion, striking out Troy Tulowitzki on a slider after a 12-pitch at bat.  This also stopped the Blue Jays' 11 game win streak. By the end of August 23, the lead was lost to the Jays once again after the Yankees lost three out of four games at home against the Cleveland Indians. This series also saw CC Sabathia suffer a knee injury that was declared as possibly season-ending with Sabathia on the DL. After walking off against the Houston Astros in the first game at home during a series starting on August 24, the Yankees became tied with the Jays in 1st place in the AL East after Toronto took an off-day.  On August 25, the Yankees lost 15-1 to the Astros and lost first place once again to the Blue Jays, who became the first American League East team to win 70 wins. On August 28, the Yankees routed the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field 15–4 and gained their 70th win of the season.
  They finished the month with 14 wins and 14 losses.
caption: Luis Severino pitching his major league debut against the Boston Red Sox on August 5.
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